to understand is to know how the parts compose the whole, to notice patterns and discern their causes, and to be able to make predictions on the basis of these insightsfir
<aside> 📌 One thing I wished I had done from the beginning of my venture career is to simply dedicate a notebook to great pieces of wisdom I would hear around specific situations raised in the context of a board meeting or partners meeting. At the end of the day, the venture business is about pattern recognition. For those of you VCs who are earlier on in your career, I’d recommend you trying something along these lines - Larry Cheng, Partner at Volition Capital
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<aside> 📌 I’m a big believer that reading not only helps you be more knowledgeable at work but also makes you a better conversationalist and a more interesting person to be around**. A lot of investing is about forming a view on where the world is going, and reading constantly is key to that.**- Rex Woodbury, Principal at Index Ventures
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<aside> 📌 I have no idea what’s hot. But I’m certainly always listening. Big Dumbo ears. Just listening - Dough Leone, GP @ Sequoia
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The “aha” moment: the moment of understanding when two smaller truths connect and a greater truth is revealed.
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Practice makes perfect
“The more you know, the less you diversify” @naval The more you know, the less you classify (better) Source: Visualizevalue
Principles - Ray Dalio
Teaching pigeons how to fly, or how education takes all credit for outcomes
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Study: Microeconomics, game theory, mathematics, psychology, computers, persuasion and ethics - Naval
Radical open mindness
Genuine worry that you might not be seeing your choices optimally. It is the ability to effectively explore different points of view and different possibilities without letting your ego or your blind spots get in your way. It requires you to replace your attachment to always being right with the joy of learning what’s true. Radical open-mindedness allows you to escape from the control of your lower-level you and ensures your upper-level you sees and considers all the good choices and makes the best possible decisions.
Most people don’t understand what it means to be radically openminded. They describe open-mindedness as being “open to being wrong,” but stubbornly cling to whatever opinion is in their head and fail to seek an understanding of the reasoning behind alternative points of view
Ray Dalio, Principles
Source: Tomas Pueyo
SUMMARY POINTS
How to ask for feedback:
How to take feedback in:
Don’t interrupt, encourage
Separate poor actual performance from expectations
Thank the feedback giver and celebrate feedback
Rephrase the feedback you hear
Ask for more details
Try to avoid telling them they’re wrong
Apologize precisely
Don’t tell them you already know the feedback you receive
Dissociate your identity from your behavior
Act on it
Make it regular
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With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True
With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True
The Beginning of Infinity - Wikipedia
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The Complete Guide to Effective Reading
There are some useful tools and approaches you can use in order to get through this process. One that works for me is trying to extrapolate all the way to being able to answer the question:“What is the essence of the idea that this single topic is trying to get at?” If you can argue a counterbelief to that idea, you really know you understand that area.
Other readings: